Anti-structure preservation effects in optimality theory
- The present study examines a particular kind of rule blockage – referred to below as an 'antistructure-preservation effect'. An anti-structure-preservation effect occurs if some language has a process which is preempted from going into effect if some sequence of sounds [XY] would occur on the surface, even though other words in the language have [XY] sequences (which are underlyingly /XY/). It will be argued below that anti-structure-preservation effects can be captured in Optimality Theory in terms of a general ranking involving FAITH and MARKEDNESS constraints and that individual languages invoke a specific instantiation of this ranking. A significant point made below is that while anti-structure-preservation effects can be handled straightforwardly in terms of constraint rankings they typically require ad hoc rule-specific conditions in rule-based approaches.
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| Author: | Tracy Alan Hall |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308638 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/196.html?&L=0 |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers in phonology & phonetics / ed. by T. A. Hall & Silke Hamann, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 32 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Phonologie; Grammatiktheorie; Optimalitätstheorie; Deutsch; Gujarati; Afar |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 87 |
| Last Page: | 110 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381234010 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 414 Phonologie, Phonetik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 32 = Papers in Phonology & Phonetics |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306738 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
